Cybersecurity Pioneer HYAS Raises $6.2M Series A Round Led By M12
August 2018 by Marc Jacob
HYAS announced it has raised $6.2 million in
a Series A funding round led by M12, Microsoft’s Venture Fund, with
participation from Startup Capital Ventures, 205 Capital, Wesley Clover and
luminary cybersecurity professionals Tim Eades and Tom Noonan. The company
will use the investment to continue to build out its current products and
services and introduce groundbreaking new technology with unparalleled
real-time visibility and attribution into attacks and breaches across
global networks.
At the helm of HYAS is Founder and Chief Executive Officer Chris Davis, an
internationally recognized figure in the information security industry. One
of only three civilians to receive the Federal Bureau of Investigation’s
(FBI) Director’s Award of Excellence, Davis was also named one of
Microsoft’s Digital Crime Unit Global Heroes in 2011 for his leadership in
taking down the massive ‘Mariposa’ botnet that infected millions of
computers globally.
“Every industry professional today is facing unrelenting adversaries. At
HYAS we have dedicated ourselves to helping them finally put their
attackers on the back foot,” said Davis. “Our Comox platform allows
enterprises to see the unseeable - it’s like X-ray vision for cybersecurity
professionals. With the release of our next generation of products, these
capabilities will grow significantly.”
Used by Fortune 100 companies, as well as governments, law enforcement and
intelligence agencies, Comox, HYAS’ industry
leading attribution intelligence platform, gives clients access to billions
of exclusive threat indicators. Searching and cross-referencing a broad
array of proprietary data, Comox provides critical new visibility for
analysts, threat researchers and investigators, vastly increasing the
accuracy of their findings and their ability to respond quickly to threats.